Sudan Archives: Queen Kunta

Meet Sudan Archives, a 22 year-old self-taught violinist/vocalist who writes, plays, and produces her own music...In this live performance video, she flips Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta” with just her voice, a violin and a loop pedal. (Watch Queen Kunta)

Well here it is finally.... It's been a year since we went there and did this. A lot of fun was had and I feel pretty sure a lot more fun will had to this music. Providencia a magical place. Thanks to Onda, to Laith Majali, and Luke Lynch on the cut. - B+

NxWorries photographed by @ecoleye. Thanks to @jeffjank @stonesthrow for the opportunity to photograph @anderson._paak and @knxwledge for their album. I have history with everyone mentioned so It only made sense that we collaborate for this Classic record. - Coleman

Over the past 20 years, trumpeter Josef Leimberg has carved out a nice career playing in the background on some of our most widely celebrated albums: Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, among many others.

I wanted to share this image here to remind myself and hopefully some of you of the magic that has been created in this city over many many years... included here Mikah Nine, Father Amde, JMD, Horace Tappscott, Don Cherry, Richard Dedeaux, Aceyalone and Otis O Solomon...

Cosmic Perspective x HVW8 Gallery Art Show ! Next Friday Sep 2 we will be showing structural & video installations by Ringgo , Eric Coleman & myself from the set of the music video. We will also have some other props & costumes on display as well...

Mark de Clive-Lowe’s CHURCH continues the Summer Sessions parties at OSSO – part two of the monthly parties featuring specially invited guest bands, artists, producers, DJs and surprises alongside MdCL’s live show. Equal parts jazz club, dance party and live remix experiment, CHURCH is a music and dance-heavy celebration of all the sounds we dig...

TODAY at @lockandkeyla in ‪Koreatown‬! On the tables Wonway Posibul is joined by fellow residents DJ Francesca Harding, Coleman and our special guest in town from Austin Tejas @chorizofunk! @gentrychicken will be holding down the food w/ amazing chicken & cauliflower (for the veggies 🙌) sandwiches...

We will miss you Bernie! Thank you for sharing your life and talents with the world. For those of you that don’t know….Bernie Worrell is the other creative half of Parliament/Funkadelic, keyboardist for Talking Heads, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and the master of the Moog synthesizer.

Hey LA friends tomorow night I get to play records for one of my favorite people... Quantic. He will be playing with Jungle Fire and the band includes Sly 5th Ave, Wilson Viveros and Jimetta Rose. Bound to be F U N!!!